The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

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Автор: Peter Englund

Название: The Beauty and the Sorrow An Intimate History of the First World War

Издательство: Profile Books

ISBN: 1846683432

Год: 2011

Формат: PDF

Размер: 31,4 МБ

Язык: Английский

Количество страниц: 577

Описание: The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty. Two of these twenty will perish, two will become prisoners of war, two will become celebrated heroes and two others end up as physical wrecks. One of them go mad, another will never hear a shot fired. Following soldiers and sailors, nurses and government workers from Britain, Russia and Germany, and from Australia and South America - and in theatres of war often neglected by major histories on the period - Englund reconstructs their feelings, impressions, experiences and moods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallest component, the individual.

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